General Assistant, Client Accounting

MUSIC·TEAM is a leading global agency representing prominent artists across all genres for live performance, touring, brand partnerships, and beyond. We are long-term career development strategists who work with artists to expand their reach and deepen their impact with audiences around the world.

MUSIC·TEAM is part of THE·TEAM. THE·TEAM operates at the epicenter of sports, music and entertainment, serving talent, brands and properties on a global scale. Headquartered in Los Angeles, THE·TEAM's presence spans 28 countries and more than 70 cities, including New York, London, Nashville, Chicago, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Toronto, Paris and Sydney. For more information, please visit  THE.TEAM.

This is an exciting role for someone with an eye for accounting and attention to detail, who can work under pressure to strict deadlines.  The role involves assisting the Client Accounting Teams in variety of tasks across accounts receivable and accounts payable functions.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Assisting the client accounting teams, agent teams, and Festival team with the credit control for artist performance fees.

• Weekly credit control and promoter reports for agents’ rosters

• Weekly commission currency exchange rates added to bespoke CRM

• Preparing refunds to promoters, merging and filing payments runs documents

• Allocating and reconciling all incoming deposit and outgoing payments for our clients’ shows

• Leveraging company-wide resources to investigate ambiguous payments and receipts

• Preparing and circulating client trust reports including Remitter Mismatch and Unallocated transactions lists

• Review incoming receipts inbox and assign payment confirmations to CRM

• Create booking fee invoices for tax mitigation purposes

• Verifying new artist bank details

• Various ad hoc duties as necessary

THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE YOU NEED

• A passion for numbers and interest in gaining experience leading to a career in finance/accounting

• Some prior exposure to accounting or finance – through study or work experience – is desirable

• Experience with Excel and Outlook required

• Ability to juggle several tasks at once and consistently deliver high-quality work to tight timescales

• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with clients, suppliers, and colleagues

• Prioritisation and time management skills

• Calm under pressure

THE·TEAM does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.